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These four extensions are Avast Online Security, AVG Online Security, Avast SafePrice, and AVG SafePrice. For those unaware, when you install Avast and AVG antivirus software, it also installs their respective Firefox and Chrome extensions listed above. For instance, the Avast and AVG Online Security extensions alert users when navigating to unknown malicious or suspicious sites. On the other hand, SafePrice extensions help online shoppers learn about better prices, deals, and available coupons at other sites....

Check out these interesting tips and tricks to use your iPhone like a pro1. Keyboard: Double tap the space bar for a period at the end of the sentence in order to start a fresh sentence with a capital letter.2. Ear plug: Do you know that you can click a selfie without touching your iPhone? All you need to do is press the + button of your ear plugs to click a picture without losing the focus....

For those unaware, formed in 2014, NiceHash serves as a marketplace for miners to rent out their hash rate to others, which sees them earn Bitcoin at regular intervals. The breach was announced by the company on social media as well as its website. — NiceHash (@NiceHashMining) December 6, 2017 “Unfortunately, there has been a security breach involving NiceHash website. We are currently investigating the nature of the incident and, as a result, we are stopping all operations for the next 24 hours,” the company said in a statement on Wednesday (December 6)....

As the video shows, it’s a password designed to cause mass confusion and irritation. There are no uppercase letters in “fourwordsalluppercase,” nor are there any dashes or underscores to separate any of the four words. It tries to make people understand that the password is challenging to some extent, as their first instinct would be to try and enter all uppercase letters and separate the four words. Alternatively, as put forward by the main character in the RocketJump video, “fourwordsalluppercase” is “one word, all lowercase, it’s like any other Wi-Fi password....

They have surpassed the nuclear fusion experimental device referred to as the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellerator developed by a team of German researchers from the Max Planck Institute that managed to heat hydrogen gas to 80 million degrees Celsius, and sustain a cloud of hydrogen plasma for a quarter of a second. According to a statement on the institute’s website last Wednesday, the experiment was conducted on a magnetic fusion reactor at the Institute of Physical Science in Hefei, capital of Jiangsu province....

However the Chinese kids are playing a sadistic live version of Angry Birds game by actually tying a live firecracker to a live Sparrow and watching it explode. A Chinese activist, Huang Chu, made this bizarre discovery in Lantian county in north-western China’s Shaanxi province, after he spotted children running away from something in a local park. Chu decided to investigate the team of children running after something and found that it was an unexploded firework....

The attacks replace the operating system used in network equipment from Cisco, the world’s biggest maker of routers, said Mandiant on Tuesday. The router implant, dubbed SYNful Knock, provides attackers with highly privileged backdoor access to the affected devices and continues to exist even across reboots. This is different than the typical malware found on consumer routers, which gets removed from the memory when the device is restarted. SYNful Knock is a modified version of the IOS operating system that runs on professional routers and switches made by Cisco Systems....

The tool is sold to cybercrime gangs, which take advantage from Angler’s exploits mostly for browsers and browser plugins. It’s targeted at anyone with crimeware, such as ransomware or banking credential stealers, who do not have the time or skill to develop and maintain their own database of software exploits. Researchers noticed that the large percentage of infected users were connecting to servers belonging to hosting provider Limestone Networks. After digging out more, they estimated that a single hacker or a group of hackers is targeting up to 90,000 end users a day....

Now, conspiracy theorists have come up with fresh fears that the world will end as early as April 23, as a giant mysterious death star “Nibiru” also known as Planet X, is set to cause destruction across the Earth. Nibiru is supposed to be a large object that is on a collision course with Earth. David Meade, a Christian numerologist and who writes for Planet X News told the Daily Express newspaper that the occurrence of an apocalypse on April 23 will ultimately destroy our Earth....

Those who have accounts, there are three setting groups in order to control your accounts. The first one is “sign-in & security” card wherein you can manage to sign in and control devices and apps that use Google accounts. There is the security setup wizard where you can see and modify your passwords and two-step security controls where you can verify all your phones, computers and tablets. The second step is “Privacy Control“....

Lance Ealy had been charged by the Federal Grand jury for 46 counts of fraudulent activity which included filing false tax returns and also buying the stolen identities. Ealy was also involved in buying stolen Social Security Numbers and Personal information from an online fraud site Superget.info which was later known as findget.me. The online fraud site was run by a Vietnamese national Hieu Minh Ngo who had already pleaded guilty to the Secret service who had been successful in luring him out from Vietnam, he had accepted that he was responsible for running the ID theft service....

Now, a maker who goes by the name ‘Node’ has built a homemade project called the ‘Zero Terminal’, wherein he has converted the Pi Zero W into a phone-sized computer with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen display. The aim to build this project is to develop a small, all-in-one computer that is both portable, and usable. The basis of the Zero Terminal is the Pi Zero W, and an iPhone 5 sliding keyboard case....

In a order to overcome these challenges, DARPA has awarded prime contracts for Phase 1 its Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program. DARPA’s interest and assistance to HAPTIX to revive full and healthy functionality is because of scores of military personnel being wounded and maimed in battles and counter insurgency operations. The DARPA initiative is also a part of the White House programme for rehabilitation of Army veterans. However the military usage is often passed to common man as has happened with Internet and many modern technological innovations....

Most users are getting the below error that reads: “Critical Error – Start menu and Cortana aren’t working. We’ll try to fix it the next time you sign in.” Microsoft has already provided a method to overcome the problem by suggesting the users to reboot to Safe Mode and then normally start their computers. However, despite this somewhat basic fix, it turns out that the problem still persists on many of the PCs....

Detekt tool to scan your system for Government SpywareGovernment funded spyware marketThe SolutionNot 100% effective yet Government funded spyware market FinSpy, maintained by German developer FinFisher, is one of the most publicized examples. It has been used to monitor the communications of human rights lawyers and democracy protesters in Bahrain, Pakistan and many countries. Services from the company could amount to millions of dollars to the buyer nation. Another company developing such a product is the Italian Hacking Team, offering Remote Control System (RCS), a spying tool that can be adapted to any platform, to different government entities....

The unknown hacker decided to boost Donald Trump’s visibility in the nominations race by breaking into a road sign and changing its default message in support of Donald Trump. The defaced road sign was first spotted and filled by filmed by Nikki Worden who immediately posted it on Facebook to draw attention of the authorities. https://www.facebook.com/nikki.milesworden/videos/10153785573133431/ The road sign is located on northbound 15 Freeway at Ontario Avenue in Corona, California and is operated by Caltrans....

Drupal 7 vulnerable to SQL InjectionCVE-2014-3704 vulnerability in Drupal 7Details CVE-2014-3704 vulnerability in Drupal 7 The CVE-2014-3704 vulnerability in Drupal 7 has, unsurprisingly, been classified as “highly critical” by SektionEins GmbH. As per their blog, the users of Drupal have to do the patching sooner than later because the easy-to-exploit vulnerability hands over total control. Once the vulnerability is exploited they can inject malware payload and further their sinister designs to other users visiting the users Drupal site....

The multitude of ecommerce platforms have a lot to offer. Many of these solutions make it easy enough for novices to master creating professional storefronts, uploading products, establishing checkout processes and and all the other ecommerce ins-and-outs. There are plenty of well-known options for merchants to choose from, such as Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce. Today I will give you the skinny on another one of the most popular solutions on the market: BigCommerce....

Earlier this month, elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization (WHO), which is facing more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks since the coronavirus pandemic began, reports Reuters. According to WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio, the identity of the hackers was unclear, but the effort was unsuccessful. The number of hacking attempts against the agency and its partners has increased amid the coronavirus outbreak, added Flavio....